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Customer Reviews for Moody Publishers When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself / New edition - eBook
Moody Publishers When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself / New edition - eBook
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Customer Reviews for When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself / New edition - eBook
Review 1 for When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself / New edition - eBook
Overall Rating:
Gets You Thinking About Poverty
Date:December 21, 2012
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This is a fantastic book that raises a lot of questions about poverty and our views towards it. As Americans and as Christians, we like to give. Obviously the whole council of Scripture speaks to this – that God cares for the poor and we are to care for them as well. We see this in the Old Testament law, in the prophets, in the teachings of Jesus as well as the various New Testament epistles.
Corbett and Fikkert do an excellent job digging deeper into various questions and issues surrounding poverty. Basically they question the typical “let’s throw money at this until it goes away” solution that most of us (myself included) want to take. Simply put, this doesn’t always work. The authors aren’t downplaying generosity and they certainly encourage the reader to give as much as they are able to give. However, they also help to challenge the audience with thinking about their giving – are you giving in a manner that helps or are you making the problem worse?
A big stand-out for me came with the idea that most of the money we give is to help relieve problems and this is well and good, but eventually if we are not helping to rehabilitate and develop people/programs, then the money essentially enters this black hole and the problem remains. We tend to like short term solutions and the authors question this mentality. Breaking the cycle of poverty isn’t an overnight thing and will take a lot of time and work. The answer might not be as easy as we hope and think it may be. They also raised a lot of great questions about short-term missions trips (I have been on two of these and have greatly praised this mindset). They’re not in direct opposition to them, but raise a lot of very good points that many of us may not be thinking about.
I would highly recommend this book for anyone involved in Christian charity, especially for those who oversee outreach endeavors, who are interested in missions work and anyone else who is regularly engaged in community partnerships. We need to be thinking about these things much more critically than we are!
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Review 2 for When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself / New edition - eBook
Overall Rating:
A book that raises questions and challenges.
Date:November 13, 2012
pastor rabbit
Location:Leduc, Alberta, Canada
Age:Over 65
Gender:male
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I was made to realize that what I have done in the past expecting to give help may have created a psychological problem in the very people I wanted to help. I may have reduced their sense of self worth by the way the material gifts were given. Evaluation of procedure is necessary.
Though I may not have agreed with all the conclusions made by the authors, I certainly was challenged.
Though I may not have agreed with all the conclusions made by the authors, I certainly was challenged.
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Review 3 for When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself / New edition - eBook
Overall Rating:
Great book to learn I am not the center of world
Date:August 1, 2012
Annie
Location:San Antonio, TX
Age:55-65
Gender:female
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This book is not easy to read if one takes it to heart and tries to change. It is a realization of how narrow minded we as American really are but gives ideas how to change. Would recommend it for a group that wishes to grow in their discipleship but are not afraid to be extremely accountable to one another. This one is probably one for John Wesley.
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